And so good for him. Inexplicably, public education seems to be less important than cutting taxes in this county. My son is giving serious thought to leaving his job as a software engineer to become a math teacher in the Chicago public schools. Noble but a bit scary for the parents.

I know the British term peckish but John Cleese says it is a way that Americans find irresistibly funny.

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Welcome to Versailles! By European standards, it is a very young town that sprang out of marshes towards the end of the 17th century for a king's whim. Nowadays, a city a stone's throw from Paris with just over 86 000 inhabitants, a famous palace (UNESCO world heritage site) that millions visit every year and... a place to photograph! A brief chronology is available in this sidebar if you scroll down.